Ken Chomitz, Senior Advisor in the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group, highlights
his new research findings about protected areas and how they affect deforestation in this
interview.

Bio of Mr. Chomitz:
In his role with the IEG, Ken Chomitz has focused his work on environmental economics. He is
the author of "At Loggerheads? Agricultural Expansion, Poverty Reduction and Environment
in the Tropical Forests", and one of the authors of the World Bank's World Development
Report 2001 on sustainable development. He has worked extensively on the causes and
consequences of land use change and on climate change. He was previously with the Bank's
Development Research Group. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1993, he was a National
Research Council Fellow at the US National Academy of Sciences; Assistant Professor of
Economics at Boston University; and senior Advisor, Development Studies Project,
Jakarta. He holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from M.I.T. and a PhD in Economics
from the University of California, Irvine.